Cutter blade of mower
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorsHirokazu Ito, Motosumi Shiotsuki
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Abstract
A cutter blade for a mower is disposed inside a housing of the mower and rotatably driven about a vertical axis. The cutter blade includes a blade body a blade portion provided at least at a part of a rotational direction-wise front end portion of the blade body, and a wind generating portion provided at least at a part of a rotational direction-wise rear end portion of the blade body, the wind generating portion extending more upwards than the blade portion. A thickness of the wind generating portion at the rotational direction-wise rear end portion is smaller at least partially than a thickness of the remaining part of the wind generating portion.
Claims6
A cutter blade configured to be disposed inside a housing of a mower and rotatably driven about a vertical axis, the cutter blade comprising:
- a blade body;
- a blade portion provided at least at a part of a rotational direction-wise front end portion of the blade body;
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- a wind generating portion provided at least at a part of a rotational direction-wise rear end portion of the blade body, the wind generating portion extending more upwards than the blade portion,
- wherein the wind generating portion comprises a tapered portion having an inclined face, the inclined face extending upwards and is inclined downward toward a rotational direction-wise rear end portion, and the blade portion is inclined so as to approach a lower face portion of the blade body as it approaches the rotational direction-wise front end portion of the blade body,
- wherein a thickness of the wind generating portion at the rotational direction-wise rear end portion is smaller at least partially than a thickness of the remaining part of the wind generating portion,
- wherein the blade body, the blade portion, and the wind generating portion are formed integral,
- wherein the blade body includes:
- a first portion provided on a center side of the blade body;
- a pair of second portions provided on opposed sides of the first portion, the pair of second portions including the blade portion and the wind generating portion;
- and a pair of third portions both provided between the first portion and the corresponding second portion, and
- wherein a height position of the first portion is higher than a height position of the second portion, and the third portion is inclined downward from the first portion toward the second portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.